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Map of the Works Heritage Trail Route

Walk the Works Heritage Trail

Swindon Railway Village Emlyn Square, Swindon

The Works Heritage Trail guides you around Swindon’s beautifully preserved Railway Village, through the Tunnel and around the former GWR Works – the original industrial heart of Swindon. In the 1840s, the Great Western Railway chose to site its locomotive repair works here, in open countryside mid-way between Bristol and London. That decision changed Swindon […]

200 Years of Britain's Railways in 14 Journeys

‘200 Years of Britain’s Railways in 14 Journeys’ by Sherin Aminossehe

Central Community Centre, SN1 5BG Central Community Centre, Emlyn Square, Swindon

The world’s first public railway, the Stockton & Darlington Railway, opened in the northeast of England in 1825 and marked the start of rail travel in Britain and across the world. Over the following two centuries the rail network expanded over the country and led to the construction of some of the most spectacular examples […]